Recently added articles from The Israel Journal of Psychiatry and Related Sciences:
Editorial: The Long-Term Effects of the Trauma of the Holocaust
Oct 01, 2008; ... This special issue is meant especially to make us, psychiatrists and psychotherapists, pay special attention to unique groups of aging people living among us and seeking treatment in psycho-geriatric and general psychiatric and psychotherapeutic clinics: Holocaust survivors, who are now in their ...
Emotional Distress and Other Health-Related Dimensions Among Elderly Survivors of the Shoa Living in the Community
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Background: In prior community studies survivors of the Shoa (Hebrew for Holocaust) scored higher on emotional distress (ED) than Europe-born Jews who were not in Nazi-occupied countries during World War II (WWII). Objective: Are elderly Shoa survivors, who by definition have survived ...
Broken Identity. The Impact of the Holocaust on Identity in Romanian and Polish Jews
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract: The paper is based on interviews conducted with Holocaust survivors in Poland (30 interviews) and Romania (55 interviews). It describes how the Holocaust affected survivor identity. Two aspects of identity are analyzed -the sense of personal identity and social identity. Each affects ...
Extermination of the Jewish Mentally-Ill during the Nazi Era - The "Doubly Cursed"
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract: In Nazi Germany, physicians initiated a program of sterilization and euthanasia directed at the mentally-ill and physically disabled. Relatively little is known regarding the fate of the Jewish mentally-ill. Jewish mentally-ill were definitely included and targeted and were among the ...
Johannes Heinrich Schultz and National Socialism
Oct 01, 2008; ... Abstract: Background: Johannes Heinrich Schultz (1884-1970) established the set of techniques known as "autogenic training." From 1936 until 1945 he worked as assistant director of the Goring Institute. His role during National Socialism has been underestimated in our opinion. Method: We ...